Barbatelle Quotes & Sayings

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term. For instance, you might pay $200,000 a year to buy a ten-year credit default swap on $100 million in General Electric bonds. The most you could lose was $2 million: $200,000 a year for ten years. The most you could make was $100 million, if General Electric defaulted on its debt any time in the next ten years and bondholders recovered nothing. It was a zero-sum bet: If you made $100 million, the guy who had sold you the credit default swap lost $100 million. It was also an asymmetric bet, like laying down money on a number in roulette. The most you could lose were the chips you put on the table; but if your number came up you made thirty, forty, even fifty times your money. — Michael Lewis

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one. — Catherine Tate

He was finally feeling what is it to be loved by somebody. To be cared for. To be missed. The simple things that we all take for granted ... — S.C. Stephens

players on the VLT machines, — R.E. Swirsky

Beware, so long as you live, or judging men by their outwards appearance. — Jean De La Fontaine

As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives. — Jay Leno

The Muslim women that I have met are super-powerful and amazing and smart and they are, they're not allowing themselves to be held back by the laws that exist. And you know, the Internet exists now, and mobile phones are freeing up stuff. I have a really good friend who's from Iran and a really good friend who's from Kuwait, and they talk about getting music on the black market and how that's such an intense, amazing experience. And how they value the music so much more, because it's such a risk to own it. — Larkin Grimm

I've been so blessed to work with the people I have. — Leighton Meester

At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating. — Haruki Murakami

You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world. — Nhat Hanh